Cement weather-board construction.



T. P. ASSIP.

CEMENT WEATHER BOARD CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8. 1913.

1 1 1 6,202. Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

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THOMAS E. ASSIP, 0F BROOKLYN, NEWYORK.

CEMENT WEATHER-BOARD CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 3, 1913. Serial No. 787,936.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS F. Assir, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cement Weather-BoardConstruction, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to weatherboard construction and has as itsobject to provide an article of this class which will take the place ofsheeting, paper, clapboards, paint, etc., and which will be superior tothe ordinary weatherboarding both as regards its waterproof qualities,durability, ease of application, and appearance.

It is a further aim of the invention to provide weatherboarding of suchconstruction that it may be manufactured in any desired lengths and maybe finished in different colore, and, if desired, to imitate brick orstone blocks.

The invention also has as its object to so construct the"weatherboarding that it will effectually resist fire.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of aportion of a building wall illustrating the manner in which theweatherboarding embodying the present invention is to be applied. Fig. 2is a perspective view, partly in section and parts being broken away,illustrating the construction of the board. Fig. 3 is an end viewillustrating a slight modification in the construction of the board.

As stated above, the weather-boarding embodying the present invention isof such general construction that it may be manufactured in pieces ofany desired length and width and may be surface finished in any desiredmanner, but for conveniencein describing the manner of manufacturing theboarding and assembling the same it will be herein described as made instrips.

Each of the boards consists essentially of a base layer or strip 1 ofwood having its edges rabbeted to form tongues 2 and 3 which arerelatively displaced at the opposite edge of the strip as clearly shownin the drawings so that when the strips comprising the boarding areassembled, this rabbeting or tongue and groove formation of the stripswill permit of their edges being inter-fitted and it will be observedfrom an inspection of Fig. 2 of the drawings that the tongue 2 islocated next adjacent that face of the strip which is to be disposedagainst the studcling of the wall, the tongue 3 being located nextadjacent the outer face of the strip. A cement facing layer is appliedto the outer face of each strip and in order,

that this layer may be firmly anchored in place and prevented fromchipping, a sheet 4 of wire netting of suitable dimensions is secured tothe strip in spaced relation to said outer face thereof. The sheet 4 ofnetting or foraminous sheet metal, depending upon which it is desired toemploy, is, of a length equal to the length of the strip and of a widthequal to the width of the outer face of the strip plus the width of thetongue 3 and at the time of securing the sheet to the strip it isdisposed with its ends in registration with the ends of the strip andwith one longitudinal edge parallel to the line of juncture of thetongue 3 with the respective edge of the strip, the other edge portionof the sheet projecting beyond the opposite longitudinal edge of thestrip and in spaced relation to the tongue 2. In securing the sheet inplace, a number of substantially U-shaped wire staples 5 are employedand have their legs or spaced portions fitted through the sheet atsuitable intervals and driven into or through the strip 1, the ends ofthe said legs being clenched or riveted as at 6 so as to preventwithdrawal of the staples should the strip be subjected to any forcetending to separate the cement layer from the strip itself.

The cement layer referred to above is indicated by the numeral 7 and ismolded on to the strip in such manner that the sheet 4 will be embeddedsubstantially in the middle thereof. In molding the layer 7 on to theouter face of the strip the tongue 3 is left exposed throughout itsentire length and the opposite edge portion of the layer projects inspaced relation to the tongue 2 so that a grove S is formed adapted toreceive the tongue 3 along the entire strip when the strips are disposededge to edge in assembled relation in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

In order that the lengths of weather-boarding may be secured to thestudding, which in Fig. 1 is indicated by the numeral 9, each strip isformed at suitable intervals throughout its length with nail openings 10and by reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings it will be observed thatthese nail openings enter the strip at the outer face thereof sub-Patented Nov. 3,1914.

stantially at the line of juncture of the tongue 3 with thecorresponding edge of the strip and extend diagonally toward and open atthe inner face of the strip. The nails, indicated at 11, for securingthe board ing in place, are driven through the nail openings 10 and intothe studding 9, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the said nailsbeing driven in a downward direction so as. to more securely and firmlysupport the boarding.

In that form of the invention shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the strip1 is formed in two relatively thin sections 12, whichare disposed inoverlapping relation in the manner shown in said Fig. 3, with one edgeof each portion projecting beyond the corresponding edge of the otherportion so as to form tongues corresponding to the tongues 2 and 3.

From the foregoing description of the invention it will be seen thatthere is provided a weatherboarding construction which will be durable,waterproof, capable of resisting fire and adapted to be cheaply andconveniently manufactured.

It will be understood, of course, that in applying the weather-boardingit is desirable thatcement mortar be employed between the matching edgesof the boards.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, weatherboarding or the like consistingof a strip provided along its opposite edges with tongues, a foraminoussheet secured to the Copies of this patent may be obtalned for fivecents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

